{"id":35021,"date":"2015-08-20T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=35021"},"modified":"2015-08-20T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:33:27","slug":"the-bmj-today-is-the-uk-ready-for-assisted-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/08\/20\/the-bmj-today-is-the-uk-ready-for-assisted-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Is the UK ready for assisted dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"assisted_dying_terminally_ill\"<\/a>\u2022 Jacky Davis and Ilora Finlay go head to head<\/a> in a debate on the Assisted Dying Bill set to be read in parliament next month. They debate whether the bill\u2019s provision requiring a High Court judge to approve patients for assisted death is enough to protect vulnerable people. <\/p>\n

\u2022 What do you think? Cast your vote in our online\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0which asks, “Would judicial consent for assisted dying protect vulnerable people?”<\/p>\n

\"assisted_dying_dignitas\"<\/a>\u2022 Owen Dyer, Caroline White, and Aser Garc\u00eda Rada give a briefing<\/a> on the assisted dying laws in several countries around the world. They summarise the law in Europe and several US states, as well as Canada and Colombia.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Other\u00a0related articles include an interview with the daughter of a doctor<\/a> who had an assisted death and two personal views. One argues that the legal ambiguity<\/a> around assisted dying lets patients and families down. Another calls for more detail<\/a> on how provisions for assessment of mental capacity would work in practice.<\/p>\n

\"ketamine\"<\/a>\u2022 Melvyn W B Zhang and Roger C M Ho claim in a feature<\/a> that ketamine\u2019s potential as a rapid antidepressant has been overplayed in the press. They question the value of a 2014 study by the University of Oxford which found improvements in the mood of some patients treated with the drug.<\/p>\n

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Joe Knight<\/strong> is an undergraduate, Wadham College, Oxford.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Jacky Davis and Ilora Finlay go head to head in a debate on the Assisted Dying Bill set to be read in parliament next month. They debate whether the bill\u2019s provision requiring a High Court judge to approve patients for assisted death is enough to protect vulnerable people. […]<\/p>\n

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